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Welcome to Quirky Crafts Challenges

Welcome toQuirky Crafts Challengesthe place where any craft project is allowed.

We're a small design team with big inspiration.

On the first Sunday of the month, at 6pm UK time, we will set a new challenge which will close on the 28th of that month at midday. The DT will pick their top three favourites and you could win a prize and join us as a Guest Designer. Winners are posted on the first Sunday in the month (midday usually) before the new challenge - don't forget to come and check if you are a winner.

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Sunday, 25 January 2015

Reminder time, here is a recap of the details and sponsor.The challenge is not about windows in your house, it is about apertures in cards and any other projects, or holes! You can have a big aperture, or small, or many small apertures, as long as we can see through those holes. They can be apertures in a layer of your card or project, so we can see something underneath, a different colour perhaps, a pattern or words or an embellishment.

Hi!!!! For this week project, I chose the tall rectangle window, that is one of the many templates of the file "Every day shapes window card tops", provided by our sponsor. The little cups, teapot and lovely sentiment are from the digi collection "Tea Time" also provided by The Cutting Cafe. I color the digis with different shades of distress inks.

Hello everyone and Happy New Year. Today, I want to share with you this Birthday Card, wish I made using the amazing EVERY SHAPES WINDOWS CARDS, from our sponsor The Cutting Cafe. This time I used the Numbers Window, I used the number 9 and resized it as my central background point in the front of my card. I also used the numbers template, some distress ink edges, ribbon and embellishment.

For the inner card, I used the numbers templates in two different papers, distress ink for the edges and the Feliz Cumpleaños sentiment. This card is inpired in our little one. He is celebrating his number 9 birthday this year, Thanks God. Have a Great Week!!!

To enter the challenge link your project HERE this takes you to the post below, or you can scroll down to it.

Sunday, 18 January 2015

To see who won the last challenge click HERE or scroll down to the next post.Welcome back everyone, although I am posting this challenge it is actually set by Doris who is away in the USA at CHA right now, lucky Doris.The challenge is not about windows in your house, it is about apertures in cards and any other projects, or holes! You can have a big aperture, or small, or many small apertures, as long as we can see through those holes. They can be apertures in a layer of your card or project, so we can see something underneath, a different colour perhaps, a pattern or words or an embellishment.

A simple and quick card for the man in your life. Made by hand cutting the squares (using the PDF version of the cutting files for people who don't have cutting machines) from the Cutting Cafe template and adding punched hearts so they show from the outside and the inside.

For this week project, I chose one of the Everyday Shapes Window Card Tops provided by our sponsor, with a lot of circles. Those circles were the perfect windows to show this adorable monsters from "Bunch of Monsters" a set of digital stamps also provided by The Cutting Cafe. The lovely sentiment is part of the same monsters set, I traced it and cut it in vinyl.

I took the silhouette of butterflies to decored inside of the card. Also, I used Distress Ink, gel pen and a small fabric flower in this project. =)

Any crafty project is acceptable as usual.
Important: BEFORE you link up please add a link to the Quirky Crafts Challenges blog (http://quirkycrafts.blogspot.com - the blog not this post) to your post - or you will not be able to enter. When you have done this you can go ahead and add a link to your blog post or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button or link below.
If you do not have a blog (or inlinkz will not accept your non blog link) you can email your entry to us via the sidebar link. Good luck!

With so many wonderful entries it was hard to choose, everyone on the team tends to vote for different favourites in their top 6, but we aggregated the scores and we ended up with our winners today.
We can only have three winners and here they are:

Congratulations Larissa, you have won two images of your choice from the ones that the team used.

Please contact me, via the email link in the side bar, with your choices. I will arrange for you to recieve your prizes, and I will send your personalised winner's badges.
We would love you all to be Guest Designers in two weeks time, or later if you can't do that. Please tell me if you can do it - you will get a digi or digis to use too.

Thank you to everyone who entered, and don't forget to check back later today to find out about our new challenge!

Sunday, 11 January 2015

It is reminder time everyone, you have until midday on Saturday 17th Jan to play along with us.Here is a recap of our challenge, sponsor and prizes:The challenge this time is Clean and Simple and this is what Clean and Simple means to me: not many embellishments, nothing fussy, and lots of "white space" which doesn't have to be white - lots of any colour unprinted, unstamped space really.Some of you put everything but the kitchen sink on your cards normally, all very pretty but if this is you I guess clean and simple means something different. Let us see what your clean and simple looks like!We are sponsored by the wonderful Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps.

For my "Clean and Simple" reminder I used this lovely "Fancy Hat" digi stamp provided by our sponsor Stitchy Bear. To color the image I used Spectum Noir pens and a litle bit of shading with distress inks.

Hi everybody! To reminder in this challenge, "Clean and Simple" I made a 3D flip swing card, I used a lovely digi Pretty in Pink. From our generous sponsor Stitchy Bear. My project is coloured with acuarelables pencils. I used also Distress Inks and small flowers on the sides of the girl were drawn by me. A little reminder of my childhood, because to me it has always loved drawing and coloring!

I just couldn't resist this extra cute Bassett Hound by Crafty Girl, he is so cute! I coloured him with Promarkers and cut him out to go on a cloud embossed background coloured with a little chalk. Die cut sentiment to match his collar.

This is another version of the card I made last week, identical images and die cuts, but this time the image is printed on Kraft and coloured with Prismacolor pencils. The images are Blue Tit 4 by IkeSart and A sign of Spring by Lil Diva.

Lori was a winner in the top three and as well as being a guest designer is going to be an 8 week guest designer so we would like to welcome her to the team, and you will be seeing a lot more of her lovely work.

Lori used Victoria Twilight by BB Kakes and said "Wow, clean and simple should be so easy but I found it quite hard to think STOP!!!!". Well done Lori, you got it just right!

For my Clean and Simple card, I chose the adorable Miss Weeble from Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet, and I coloured her with my Prismacolor pencils. I would be so happy if you visited my blog for a closer look at all the details: http://ktdesigns2013.blogspot.ca//. Thank you to Quirky Crafts for having me as your Guest Designer! I hope you join our CAS challenge! Wishing you a joyful day!

For my "CAS" card, I chose this gorgeous indian bride digi "Bride Ankhi" provided by our sponsor Stitchy Bear. To make my card I made a little research about indian wedding and find out that they use red color as a symbol of purity, fertility, love, beauty, wealth and power. They also use gold as a symbol of their status and to bring joy and richness to the new family. So I tried to use those lovely colors in my card. I really enjoy colouring this digi.

I went for a Spring card to cheer you (and me) up, I am fed up with the wet weather, cold weather, everyone having bugs and getting sick, and look forward to the Spring. I used two of the digi images combined to make a scene, A Sign of Spring by Lil Diva, and Blue Tit 4 by IkeSart. I cut the image out with a lot of white space and a Spellbinders large labels 1 die, and made the card the same shape. No sentiment, lots of people like cards without a sentiment. All of the colouring is done with Promarkers. The inside card blank is yellow. So this is what I think is CAS.

Now let's see what you can do, come and play Quirky with us!

Email Entries

Naomi Sherrard.
Any crafty project is acceptable as usual.
Important: BEFORE you link up please add a link to the Quirky Crafts Challenges blog (http://quirkycrafts.blogspot.com - the blog not this post) to your post - or you will not be able to enter. When you have done this you can go ahead and add a link to your blog post or your online photo gallery, SCS etc. using the button or link below.
If you do not have a blog (or inlinkz will not accept your non blog link) you can email your entry to us via the sidebar link. Good luck!

Contact Form - if email doesn't work use this.

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Anyone can play - any type of craft project is allowed!

QUIRKY CHALLENGE RULES AND INFORMATION - PLEASE READ

Yes there are some Quirky Challenge rules, we have to have them to make it fair.

1. Your entry must be anew creation,no backdated entries (older than the first day of the current month) allowed.

2. Your entrymust not be one you entered in the previous Quirky Challenge (it must be "new" to this blog).

3. You must include all of the listed requirementsfor each challenge, (e.g. if it says include embossing we must be able to see some).

4. You must post alink to the Quirky Crafts Blogand mention you have entered the challenge.

5. You may enter as many other challenges as you like as long as your makefits our theme.

6. You mustlink to your blog postand not just your blog, (or you can link to your photo album or forum gallery but it must be a link to the picture of your project).

7. Any type of craft project is allowed.

8.Winners and runners up should contact usby email or contact form to receive their prizes or be Guest Designers, the winner's post will provide details.

9. Limit of3 entries per person, if more are entered they will be removed. Winners are chosen by the team each of us picks our top 3 to 6 which are then ranked using a scoring system, we do not random generate winners!

Now go have fun creating your entry.

Emailing us.

If you email Cazzy (link above) and don't receive a reply in a few days please email her again, sometimes emails go into the black hole called cyberspace never to be seen again! We would hate it if you miss out on your prize or GD spot.

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